Hothouse Flowers - Monroe's Live date for July

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

"ROCK'N'ROLL is not about safety or politeness, it is not about perfection. It is expression and it is spirit." So say the Hothouse Flowers who are coming to next month's Galway International Arts Festival.

World premiere of Angela's Ashes - The Musical

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THE WORLD premiere of Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela's Ashes, takes place in the Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick from July 6 to 15, before transferring to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, from July 18 to 30, and the Grand Opera House, Belfast, from August 1 to 5.

Windows marks quarter century of giving voice to new writers

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THE WINDOWS authors and artists anthology, co-edited by Cavan based poets Heather Brett and Noel Monahan, has for the past quarter century been an important outlet for emerging artists, and writers who have yet to publish a first book.

Dominica Corcoran exhibits in Renzo

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

GALWAY ARTIST Dominica Corcoran is holding her second solo exhibition in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street, with works in a variety of media.

Tracy Bruen - giving voice to herself and others

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

TRACY BRUEN is something of a modern day Renaissance woman - singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, band leader, theatre director and actor, teacher at a special needs school, and a Galway Advertiser Solo Artist of the Year winner. Next week opens a new chapter in her creative life when she launches her debut album Mirror.

Breathe in a Pink Floyd experience

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

PINK FLOYD, the visionary English rock adventurers whose explorations of rock, jazz, folk, prog, psychedelia, and avant garde have inspired Radiohead, Aphex Twin, The Orb, and much of the Krautrock scene, will be celebrated in Galway.

NYC's John Morales to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

NEW YORK DJ John Morales, who played at the Big Apple's legendary and notorious Studio 54 nightclub, will be spinning the decks at Electric this Bank Holiday Weekend, at Get Down Edits clubnight birthday bash.

Icelandic choir to sing in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

ICELANDIC CHORAL music will be heard within St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when the Selkórinn choir perform a tea-time concert in the city centre church next week.

Dessie O'Halloran and a trad concert in Salthill

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

SOME OF the finest traditional musicians and singers from the west of Ireland, including the great Inishbofin singer Dessie O'Halloran, join forces for the upcoming Bofin to Burren concert.

June Bank Holiday Weekend@ HALO

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

MIKE SKINNER, Cafolla and Engel, and a host of leading Galway DJs - it's going to be one hell of a weekend for some seriously good music and many hours of dancing at HALO this Bank Holiday Weekend.

Worries Outernational bring the reggae this weekend

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

WORRIES OUTERNATIONAL, one of the leading soundsystems pushing reggae and dancehall music in Ireland, hit Galway this weekend when they take over the Commercial Boatclub in Woodquay.

Saint Sister - new single and GIAF 17 show

Tue, May 30, 2017

SAINT SISTER, the Irish electro-folk duo of Morgan Macintyre and Gemma Doherty have released a new single - ‘Causing Trouble’ - ahead of their Irish and European tour, which includes a show at the Galway International Arts Festival.

'We’re a three-headed monster!'

Thu, May 25, 2017

THEY GREW up in a house where good music was always being played, where parents and neighbours loved a sing-song. That Emily, Jessica, and Camilla Staveley-Taylor would eventually form a band seems to have always been on the cards, but it could have been so different. Had things worked out another way, the sisters could today be a comedy trio.

Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Competition seeks entries

Thu, May 25, 2017

ENTRIES ARE sought for the 29th Galway Film Fleadh's Pitching Competition, which seeks ideas, at any stage of development, from budding screenwriters and filmmakers.

Michael Flaherty's exhibition of happy endings

Thu, May 25, 2017

ANOTHER VERSION Of The Happy Ending, a new exhibition by the Kerry artist Michael Flaherty, depicts the landscape and native fauna of the artist’s home county of Kerry.

'A powerful First World War story'

Thu, May 25, 2017

A YOUNG soldier on the Western Front, Tommo Peaceful, as he awaits his execution by firing squad, looks back on the whole of his life. This is Private Peaceful, a deeply moving story by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo.

Mike Skinner to DJ @ HALO

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOR 10 years Mike Skinner was the man behind the musical phenomenon The Streets. In that time he won an Ivor Novello, a Brit, and made a significant impact on British urban music.

Album review: Sea Pinks

Music Reviews Thu, May 25, 2017

SEA PINKS' last album, Soft Days, was solid, but lacked a true stand-out song. Watercourse has no such trouble though, as this new album from the Belfast trio boasts several great moments.

Rubberbandits at the Róisín this weekend

Thu, May 25, 2017

THEY'RE BACK! The Rubberbandits - the plastic bag masks clad duo of Blindboy Boat Club and Mr Chrome - will bring their inspired, highly intelligent, and as sharp as it is funny hip-hop comedy to the Róisín Dubh.

INISH: Island Conversations Festival

Thu, May 25, 2017

"ONE OF the most innovative, original, and downright entertaining events I'd been to in a long time," was how writer Kevin Barry described the INISH: Island Conversations Festival, which returns next month.

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